Sky TV's satellite switch: A close call averted

Sky TV's satellite switch: A close call averted
Sky’s CEO Sophie Moloney. (Image: NZME)
Peter Griffin
Pay-TV operator Sky TV successfully completed its satellite transition in the early hours of yesterday morning, avoiding potential disruption for thousands of customers nationwide.I knew it had been a success because there was no early morning call from my father on the Kāpiti Coast in his retirement village, where the news junkie spends much of his time flicking between CNN, Sky News, and BBC as a decades-long Sky TV subscriber.Any disruption to service usually elicits a call for technical support. However, they’ve been few and far betwe...

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